Sartorius Stedim Biotech signs agreement with the Paul Mueller Company
Sartorius Stedim Biotech's subsidiary, Sartorius Stedim North America, and US systems manufacturing specialist Paul Mueller Company, based in Springfield, Missouri, have entered into an exclusive co-operation and supply agreement covering the US, Canada, the US Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for manufacturing biopharmaceutical production systems.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech's subsidiary, Sartorius Stedim North America, and US systems manufacturing specialist Paul Mueller Company, based in Springfield, Missouri, have entered into an exclusive co-operation and supply agreement covering the US, Canada, the US Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for manufacturing biopharmaceutical production systems.
Under the agreement Paul Mueller Company will be Sartorius Stedim Biotech's exclusive North American partner and supplier of stainless steel systems, such as fermenters, bioreactors, freeze-thaw systems and crossflow and other filtration systems. The two companies will each continue to offer their own traditional products in addition to the products offered jointly under the agreement.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech will be closing its production facility for stainless steel systems in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and will be focusing on customer-specific application engineering as well as installation and servicing of its stainless steel systems. Sartorius Stedim Biotech will be concentrating these activities at its site in Springfield, Missouri, near to its new co-operation partner. In Europe and Asia, Sartorius Stedim Biotech will continue to manufacture these systems at its production facilities in Melsungen, Germany and Bangalore, India.
Paul Mueller Company is a leading US manufacturer of processing systems for the biopharmaceutical industry. It has state-of-the-art, automated fabrication and machining capabilities with approximately 93,000m² of manufacturing space and more than 1,200 employees in research, engineering and the manufacture of stainless steel systems.
"Our customers need innovative disposable systems and classic stainless steel systems as well as combinations of both; in other words, hybrid systems," said Joachim Kreuzburg, ceo and chairman of the board of Sartorius Stedim Biotech. "As of now, we can offer both in an even better way with regard to applications expertise, technology and engineering of stainless steel systems."